What we find inside real cloud bills — where the waste hides, what a read-only review turns up, and the practices that keep spend down after we leave.
Engineers: migrate legacy preemptible VMs to Spot on GCP. Learn to use advice.capacityHistory to gauge zone preemption risk, plan migrations, and avoid...
An AWS-first FinOps playbook that can cut multi-cloud spend 25–30%. Includes a 90–180 day rollout, unified billing, and a pay-on-savings audit option.
For FinOps: a practical activation checklist and governance playbook to activate AWS cost allocation tags, handle 24–48 hour propagation, and build...
AWS playbook to lower OpenSearch costs with eight practical levers: reservations, Serverless NextGen, OR2 instances, gp3, and tiering. Pay on savings...
A FinOps playbook for finance teams: AWS focused cloud spend analysis that turns bills into prioritized, audit ready savings cards engineers can act on.
AWS first playbook for FinOps and engineers to detect cloud cost anomalies within 24 hours, tune monitors, route alerts, and run a 30–90 day rollout.
Audit first Redshift cost playbook for cloud architects. Prioritized, measurable actions with concrete queries and KPIs. 32% average savings.
Engineering led AWS Kubernetes cost reporting with read only data collection, dollarized recommendations, and pay only on verified savings. Average client...
An AWS engineer's playbook that maps each RDS optimization to the billing meter and a prioritized audit plan to cut 20–40% from your RDS bill.
Five practical steps for architects to estimate Azure Blob Storage bills, uncover hidden charges, and prioritize fixes that cut cloud storage spend.
AWS engineer playbook to cut S3 bills fast with Storage Lens, lifecycle rules, and request fixes. Verify savings or get a pay on savings audit.
Engineer-focused audit playbook to cut DynamoDB costs 30–60% with break-even math, GSI pruning, Standard‑IA moves, backup controls, and when to use a...
AWS first, measurement first audit to cut Databricks costs. Use system tables to tie DBUs to AWS charges and get a two week savings plan.